Washing-machine



(No Model.)

l RR. BARNES; WASHING MACHINElv V188818888May18,1882.

' i ence being had to the annexed drawings, makin the claims.

PATENT'. OFFICE.

EUGENE R. BARNES, OE OSKALOOSA, IOWA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,839, daten May 1e, 1882.

Application filed February 8, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may conce-rn: i

Be it known that I, EUGENE R. BARNES, a citizen ot' the United Sta-tes, residing at Oskaloosa, in the county of Mahaska and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of thexsame, refering a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention, partlyin section. Fig. 2is a perspective view in detail of the driving gear-wheel. Fig. 3 is an end view of the seat for connecting the handle. Fig. 4 is a plan viewvof the driving gear-wheel.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in washingmachines; and it consists in the details of construction, substantially as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described, and pointed out In the accompanying drawings, Arepresents the cast-metal plate for attaching to the cover B of a washing-machine. The plate A has standards a b, which form bearings for the ends of a short horizontal shaft, c, said shaft having keyed or otherwise rigidly connected to it a driving-wheel, C. This driving-wheel has two sets of4 teeth, d e, each of which describes a segment of a circle on different vertical planes and of different radii, sothat the teeth d may be brought in position to engage with theY teeth .f of a bevel-gear wheel, D, or the teeth e made to engage with the teeth g of said wheel when found necessary to change the speed of the agitator in the suds-box. The plate A is cast with an internal screwthreaded collar, h, uponits under side, which passes through an opening of circular form in the cover B.

A disk, E, clamps the plate A and holds it and the cover firmly together without the use of screws or bolts, as heretofore, which greatly weakened the cast-metal plate A and rendered it liable to break. The clamping-disk E upon its upper side has a screwthreaded extension, t', for engaging with the screw-threaded collar h, and upon the under side of the clampingl disk is a square or equivalent form shoulder,

7c, to receive a suitable wrench for screwing up or removing the clamping-disk. Y

The bevel-gear wheel D is rigidly connected to the upper end of the agitator-shaft l, said shaft passing down through holes in the plate A and disk E. The lower end of the shaft l is formed square for rigidly connecting thereto the agitator-arms F 5 or they may be secured in any suitable manner, so long as they are rigid and will notmturn upon the shaft.

The agitator may be of any suitable construction or form; but I prefer to employ the wire-rods m, bent as shown, and connected to the cross-arms F, .thereby greatly increasing the strength of the agitator and rendering it more serviceable.

The shaft c, upon which the driving-wheel the teeth upon the wheel C to lhold it steady` A thumb-screw, p,

and firmly to the wheel. passes through the wheel C, seat G, and into the handle H, which also firmly connects them together.-

In the drawings the teeth e are shown as engaging with the teeth g of the bevel-gear wheel D, thereby enabling the agitator to be more rapidly revolved; but should a less speed of the agitator be preferred, in case where delicate fabricssuch as laces-are being washed the thumb-screw p is removed and the wheel C turned so that the teeth d will engage with the teeth f, and the teeth n upon the back of the seat G engage with the teeth e, after which the thumb-screw p is replaced as before.

Having now fully described my invention,

4what I claim as new, and desire to secure by l. In a washing-machine, the combination, with the agitator thereof, having connected to its shaft a beveLgear wheel with two sets of teeth, of a driving gear-wheel connected to a horizontal shaft, said wheel having two sets of teeth, each of which describes a segment of a circle on different vertical planes and of diff ferent radii, and an operatingdever adj ustably connected to the said wheel, substantially as and for the purpose set forth,

2. In a washing-machine, the combination, In testimony that I claim the above I have with the vgear-Wheel D, having teeth fg, for hereunto subscribed my name in the presence a operating the agitator, of the wheel C, eonof' two witnesses.

struoted, as shown, with the teeth d e, and the EUG-ENE B. BARNES. seat G, having' teeth n, and means for con- Witnesses:

meeting it to the wheel, substantially as and H. H. JONES,

for the purpose specified. I W. C. BEANS. 

